Nigeria Communications Week

Firm Expands Offerings for HMOs with HealthExch­ange Platform

- Bankole Orija

AS part of its vision to enable businesses across Nigeria and other African countries where it has its operations, CWG Plc is currently leveraging on technology to expand the offerings for Health Management Organisati­ons (HMOs) with its HealthExch­ange platform.`

CWG explained that the HealthExch­ange platform connects all health entities under one platform ranging from HMOs, hospitals, corporate organizati­ons, organizati­on employees, private enrollees and suppliers of medical services or products.

Giving an overview of the solution in Lagos, Francis Okechukwu, Head of Software and Innovation­s at CWG Plc informed that all that is required to get the full benefits of the HealthExch­ange platform is for HMOs to sign up so they can solely focus on their primary operations, leaving the technical concerns to CWG Plc.

“HealthExch­ange platform handles all HMO processes, enrollment of enrollees, product and plan management, tariff management, capitation and fee for service, treatment management (online and offline), claims handling and fund disburseme­nt, notificati­on and reminders, CRM, and many more features,” Francis said, adding that the solution was developed as a way of promoting local content in IT solutions.

He also explained that HealthExch­ange is a health management informatio­n system (HMIS) used by Health Maintenanc­e Organizati­ons (HMOs) to maintain subscribed enrollees and manage their operations. According to him, all HMOs need to do is simply register on the website (www.allHealthE­xchange.com) and onboard their providers or hospitals, corporate organizati­ons or private enrollees and dependents.

The HealthExch­ange leverages IBM infrastruc­ture and ensures that the global best practices and certificat­ions are adhered to. The use of data encryption patterns in mitigating hackers that might want to hijack informatio­n transmissi­on is also guaranteed with privacy terms available to the public to review before they register on the website.

 ??  ?? L-R: Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communicat­ions Commission (NCC); Adeleke Adewolu, Executive Commission­er, Stakeholde­r Management, NCC; Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, NCC; Abigail Sholanke, Director, Projects, NCC and Adebayo Bodunrin, Director, News Directorat­e, AIT, during the EVC's interactiv­e session with the media.
L-R: Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communicat­ions Commission (NCC); Adeleke Adewolu, Executive Commission­er, Stakeholde­r Management, NCC; Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman, NCC; Abigail Sholanke, Director, Projects, NCC and Adebayo Bodunrin, Director, News Directorat­e, AIT, during the EVC's interactiv­e session with the media.

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